TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS

• US 20090281875A1
• Filed: 05/05/2009
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MOBISSIMO, INC.
• Original Assignee: MOBISSIMO, INC.
• Inventors: Tarka, Beatrice
• Application Number:
  US12/436,001
• Publication Number:
  US 20090281875A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/14 Travel agencies

Abstract

A system for recommending travel receives traveler trip data including both previously collected information and dynamically collected information. The system uses a traveler'"'"'s trip information to produce recommendations the traveler. These recommendations are prioritized and then several top recommendations are presented to the traveler for purchase.

Claims

1. A system for recommending travel options comprising:

a traveler behavioral data extraction engine;

a travel opportunity location engine coupled to the traveler behavioral data extraction engine;

a partner services repository coupled to the travel opportunity location engine;

an attractions repository coupled to the travel opportunity location engine;

a business rule based sorting engine coupled to the travel opportunity engine; and

a business rules repository coupled to the business rule based sorting engine;

wherein in operation,

the traveler behavioral data extraction engine processes traveler search queries to produce traveler behavioral data;

the travel opportunity location engine produces travel recommendations based on traveler trip data, partner services data from the partner services data repository and attractions data from the attractions repository; and

the business rule based sorting engine sorts the recommendations in order according to the business rules included in the business rules repository.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the sorted recommendations are provided to a travel portal for display of several best recommendations.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the attractions repository receives additional data describing a new attraction.

5. The method of claim 3 further comprising inferring a traveler location from an IP address and an origination airport.

6. The method of claim 3 further comprising storing social network data associated with friends of the traveler in association with the traveler.

7. The method of claim 3 further comprising storing partner services information into a partner services repository.

8. The method of claim 6 further comprising receiving the partner services information from a partner electronically from a partner who volunteers the information regarding the partner services.

4. A method for recommending travel comprising:

extracting information from one or more traveler searches;

producing recommendations related to the information extracted from the one or more searches;

sorting the one or more recommendations by business rules; and

displaying several top recommendations to a traveler.